Good morning. Welcome to way toO Early. The show that has really had enough of those insects i am Kasie Hunt on this wednesday, june 9th. We will start with the news. President bidens talks with a group of republican senators on a sweeping Infrastructure Package collapsed yesterday, shifting the debate on one of his key domestic priorities. Nog meetings between biden and West Virginia Governor fell through after the two remained far apart on a final Price Tag for the bill and which types of projects should be included and whether to raise any new taxes. Now any hopes of a bipartisan deal falls to a group of senators that includes Republican Mitt Romney and Democrat Joe Manchin who met three hours hashing out their own agenda. At the same time, democrats are separately laying the groundwork to pass some 0 all of the package on its own through requisition. President biden spoke with Nancy Pelosi Chuck schumer. There is no clear path forward on another hugely important topic that is playing out right now on Capitol Hill and that is Voting Rights. As we reported, Senator Manchin dashed hopes on sunday of passing a sweeping Election Overhaul Bill that would guarantee universal access to Mailin Voting and secure 15 days of early voting in every state. The for the people act has the official backing of top party leaders including President Biden. Despite his Meeting Yesterday with top civil rights leaders, the West Virginia Democrat remains unmoved. What we had was a great we had a respectful, we had a very informative it was a very good conversation we had. Starting of a good relationship. Really was. Manchin says he would back a different voting Rights Bill but that too is facing serious obstacles. There is no threat to the Voting Rights law. Its against the law to discriminate in voting on the base of race already. So i think its unnecessary. Joining me now, is andrew. Thank you for being with us. Good morning. Two things infrastructure, Voting Rights, obviously, like face very different futures because the voting Rights Legislation Isnt something they can push through with just democratic votes. Overall, this does highlight, i think, the obstacles that President Biden is facing in passing his agenda here. It seems to me like they got frustrated with the Infrastructure Talks and said, okay, we got to get ready to move this on our own. What is your latest reporting . Its not just progressives who have become, frankly, antsy to get these Infrastructure Talks, you know, off the ground and actually put that into congressional Floor Action in the House And Senate. You have democratic leadership who is saying, look, we are Running Out Of Time here. Democrats and the president want to go significant progress on Infrastructure Talks by July Fourth and, hopefully, a Bill On The President s desk by the time that the House And Senate Leave Washington in early august for their monthlong summer recess. The reality is that Senator Capito and President Biden were around 700 Billion apart on their offer. Look. I know we are talking a lot about big Price Tags over the last year, especially with the covid Relief Bills that have come before congress but, you know, that is a lot of money. That is an irreconcilable difference from the two sides there. Democratic leaders are saying, look, we got to get this show on the road. I know youve been reporting on this as well. The chinarelated bill that Chuck Schumer, the Majority Leader, has been so focused on, even got incredibly hung up even though it actually has bipartisan support. What happened there . And what does that signal to you about their ability to do anything else in a bipartisan way . It signals that they can get something done in a bipartisan way, no matter how messy it becomes. This was a bill that had overwhelming bipartisan support as you mentioned. It got 68 votes in the senate when it passed yesterday. It will go on to the house where it has a much trickier future, but, you know, the Bottom Line is the senate still can legislate in a bipartisan way, even though it took, you know, a few weeks to get this bill finally passed. Senator schumer has long wanted a more hawkish approach to china. A lot of folks have called this really his pet project, for example, and they really wanted to get this off the ground. And, you know, its going to be really hard to get a bipartisan Infrastructure Deal through, for example, if you use the same regular order of process because the people who are opposed to it have so many procedural, you know, tools at their disposal to try to slow it down and try to obstruct and make it not happens in other words. It shows the limits of bipartisanship, even when there is strong support among both parties to get something done here. We should underscore the debate about this started before memorial day, was dragged out, had to be punted until, you know, for a week as you noted. Andrew, the president is heading overseas here for a series of meetings in europe and, of course, with vladimir putin. But he has promised that he is going to try to keep talking to folks about infrastructure. How realistic is that really . How much of this is about Joe Manchin in particular and making sure he is on board with potentially getting this through with just democrats . Its critically important, right . Its looking like the result here is going to have to be using only democratic votes and convincing Joe Manchin to be that 50th vote, for example. Youre going to need the Vice President to break a tie in the senate, for example. That is going to be critically important as the president goes on his First International trip here. All right. Politicos andrew, thank you for being with us and we appreciate your reporting as always. Lets go to the latest on the pandemic. Pfizer has announced its expanding its Vaccine Testing trials in children under the age of 12. The study will enroll Up To 4,500 children in nearly 90 clinical sites in the u. S. , finland, Poland And Spain after subjecting a lower stage of the shot in the stage of the trial. They are testing the vaccine in lordosis in younger children. If the trials provide a safe immune response, pfizer will go before the Cdc Board to provide the vaccine for children. We are making progress here. U. S. Health officials are working to get more americans vaccinated to keep what is called the Delta Variant of the coronavirus from spreading across the united states. Cnbc reports that the new variant, which was first identified in india, has become the dominant strain in the Uk Accounting for an estimated 60 of new cases. According to dr. Anthony fauci its more prevalent than the strain in india and so far in the u. S. , scientists estimate the Delta Variant is 60 of cases. Get your vaccines, folks. There is a push to use up doses of the Johnson Johnson before they conspire. Most of because of that 11day Pause in its Distribution Due to safety concerns. Ohio has 200,000 doses that are going to expire in two weeks. And West Virginia has 20,000 that could expire. The fda is trying to figure out if they can extend the vaccines shelf life. Ahead here, the Rookie Mistake that got a Home Run overturned in pittsburgh last night. Plus, the crisis at the border back in the spotlight as pressure intensifies on Vice President Kamala Harris amid her trip to latin america. O latin a. R 25 of your mouth. Listerine® cleans virtually 100 . 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The projected 470foot Home Run Hit Out to right Center Field seats is the longest of his career. What a season for this guy so far. In pittsburgh, the pirates Ryan Hayes thought he gave his team the lead with a solo homer in the first inning but a Replay Review shows hayes never touched first base in his trip around the diamond oh, man he is called out and the Home Run is nullified the dodgers beat the pirates 53. Thats a Rookie Mistake. Now in golf. Qualifying rounds for the u. S. Open tournament have concluded and the effort from Rickie Fowler at Yesterdays Event in columbus, ohio, came up just short. Fowlers chip from the rough on 18 stopped inches from the cup leaving him just one stroke shy of the playoff for the remaining spots at next weeks major. Fowler once ranked fourth in the world, he has dropped to number 87 and is going to miss the u. S. Open for the first time in 11 years. That is rough after fowler failed to qualify, Phil Mickelson offered to give up his no longer needed. Mickelson accepted a special exemption to play at the u. S. Open. Time for the weather. Lets go to Meteorologist Bill karins for a check on the forecast. Pretty stormy out there, bill. Yeah. A lot of storms and a lot of humidity and typical of summer. The one spot that has gotten way too much is in arkansas. Once again this morning, we are talking about thunderstorms and downpours and lifethreatening flooding situation. Even in Northern Mississippi, too. Its been day after day. They are saying one location, or a couple of locations from Pine Bluff over towards clarksdale have received Up To a foot in rain in just the last 36 hours. All of those areas in that Maroon Color are under Flash Flood warnings and calling it a potentially dangerous situation because the rivers are already flooding and the additional Rainfall And Runoff will make things worse so careful traveling in any of these locations. Additional rainfall 1 to 3 inches from now until The End of the day in Northern Mississippi and areas south of little rock. Downpours today in kentucky, ohio, West Virginia, eastern north carolina, especially from charlotte to raleigh to the Outer Banks and additional Afternoon Storms from d. C. To New York to philadelphia and it will be hot, humid and get Afternoon Storms so the Evening Commute could be slow like it was yesterday around New York city. Sneak peek towards theupcoming weekend. Much cooler in the northeast and Heavy Rain likely in virginia and north carolina. Saturday, some of that Rainfall Shifts to south carolina. 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The Washington Post reports democrats in texas are worried that republican State Lawmakers will try to pass Voting Restrictions again and that democrats might not be able to stop them as they did when they walked out of the State Capital last month. House speaker Nancy Pelosi calls it an urgent moment and says its time to pass hr1 the for the people act. In letter to colleague she says something she hopes can be passed in a bipartisanship way. Seems like this ship has sailed. She adds the John Lewis Voting Rights Act must also be passed but notes its not going to be ready for a vote until the the fall and she reminded her members that the League Congressman Lewis actually wrote 300 pages of hr1. Neal will serve as u. S. District judge in new Jersey And Rodriguez will be the first asianamerican to serve as a District Judge in colorado. Both first nominated by President Obama but among the dozen of nominees blocked as Mitch Mcconnell refused to fill vacancy the last two years in the obama presidency. Democrats are trying to rebalance the courts after Donald Trump picking mostly white male judges. Joining me now, is national Politico Reporter for the Washington Post, eugene scott. Thank you for being here, u geep. This question of the courts is a pretty critical one. It does take time to confirm the judges but take a lot more focus if democrats want to try and shift what has been a years long push, successful push really for democrats to get their picks on the bench. That is true. One of former President Trumps lasting legacies is how he has transformed the courts. Not july the supreme court but nationally. What biden campaigned on is wanting to make sure that the courts were more reflective of the americans that come to them seeking justice. And so what we saw happen with the two nominees you just named, what we saw happen with Merrick Garland we can can expect to see much more going forward and biden seeks his own legally when it comes to law and justice. Eugene, lets circle back to Voting Rights legislation. They are actually, of course, incredibly connected, especially as these judges possibly find themselves making decisions about the way states are litigating these kinds of issues. I understand why Nancy Pelosi is saying, that Speaker Pelosi is saying that they can still get the for the people act passed or should focus on that, but the reality is simply its not going to go anywhere in congress and, frankly, democrats have gotten themselves in a little bit of a bind because a lot of their activists and understandable, its an incredibly emotional Issue And Something changing fast at the State Level which makes federal action i think urgent for a lot of people who support it, but that doesnt mean that they are going to get anywhere with it even so. How do they navigate . How do they make sure they get their activists to support what potentially can be done on this . Its not clear to me that the john Lewis Bill could go anywhere but it certainly has more support than hr1. It does. I think one of the things democrats are focused on right now is messaging. You know so much of the talking about voting Rights Expansion previously focused on how things were disproportionately affecting people of color. More recently, we have seen some people on the left talk about how not supporting voting Rights Expansion hurts people in rural america, regardless of their racial ethnicity. People from low income environments who may not have as much access to the polls. And these Talking Points are made to connect with conservative voters and even republicans with the hope that they will motivate gop lawmakers to vote differently. Whether or not that is effective, we will see. But much of this messaging is really focused on trying to help democrats have something to argue on next year when we head into midterms and these pieces of legislation may not look the way that democrats and their initial activists who sent them to washington would hope they would. Fair enough. They are trying to keep their base motivated but i think activists are also frustrated in that the idea that this is just a Messaging Bill and i think they see it as so much more and dont want to describe it in those terms. The Washington Post eugene scott, thank you, my friend, for being here. We appreciate it. Still ahead, why a visit to the South Of France came as a Slap In The Face to the countrys president. Plus, the totally different reason reporters traveling to europe ahead of President Biden experienced a flight delay. It is definitely way toO Early for that still O Early for that still people everywhere living with Type 2 Diabetes are waking Up To whats possible with rybelsus®. You are my sunshine my only sunshine. Rybelsus® works differently than any other Diabetes Pill to lower Blood Sugar in all 3 of these ways. Increases insulin. Decreases sugar. And slows food. The majority of people taking rybelsus® lowered their Blood Sugar and reached an a1c of less than 7. 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Joining me now, is the Boston Globe Columnist and cohost of the Sisters Podcast kimberly atkins and she is a msnbc contributor. Thank you very much for being here. We spent this morning talking about the Senates Inability to function. This actually may be a bright spot because of this relationship that has been forged between tim Scott And Cory booker and the idea that if Tim Scott signs off on this, we could see a lot of republicans move forward. What is your sense of where things stand and how realistic this is . Yes. This seems to be one of the very few areas where a Party Compromise might merge out of congress out of this group of bipartisan senators who are working on this deal. Now the devil is in the details as Senator Scott said. That is correct in seeing how much support this bill will get, particularly exactly what the qualified immunity provision of it says. But youre right, it also has to bring other members, it has to bring republicans and democrats to the table who are willing to vote for this. So we will be looking to see exactly what is in it and fell disclosure, the boston Globes Editorial has been clear we endorse the qualified immunity and better than eliminating from the Police Department Something that Senator Scott has previously called on for. We will see what support that says, it will tell us what support they will get more broadly. Yeah, no. Its an important point. You know, in some ways, its surprising because democrats have been, as you point out, very firm in this qualified immunity question. So as we say, the devils in the details which is why we dont have very many because sometimes they get out and they can kill a negotiation like this. Still, there is a lot of other things in this. There are, you know, talks about noknock warrants, whether chokeholds should be banned, et cetera. I mean, are there any other red lines, for example, editorial for democrats in terms of the remainder of this bill . Or if this is resolved, in your view, do you think they can get can they get there on all of the other stuff . Yes. It seems, at this point, that the qualified immunity is slowly sort of at the center of the disagreements and its sort of emerged to be the last disagreement standing, if you will. Yes, it has a lot of other things has garnered bipartisan support and a lot of measures banning noknock warrants and chokeholds. But it seems that this issue is so centered in the middle. This ability to bring claims against Police Officers who have found to have been engaged in wrongdoing is such a crucial factor. Its really important for Police Reform advocates and important for most democrats, and it seems potentially there is enough movement to get some republicans on board. Kimberly, while i have you, we talked a little bit earlier in the show about Kamala Harris and her interview with our Lester Holt here at nbc where she wasnt quite ready to talk about whether she was going to visit the border instead bringing up europe. Bringing up europe. And shes come in, of course, for much criticism from republicans for that. How much of a problem for her do you think those remarks were . This is a very tough assignment to have gotten from the biden administration to handle the crisis at the border. What was your take on what we heard from her yesterday . Yes. I thought that the Europe Analogy was at best inartful from the Vice President , but i think overall Immigration Reform is one of the toughest policies to tackle for any administration. And she has been speaking overall about focussing not only on the causes, what is happening in the Central American countries that have been hit not just by the on going humanitarian crisis but also the coronavirus and hurricanes and also shoring up the border and dealing with the backlog that is there. So shes speaking in a very comprehensive way and saying this is a complex issue thats going to take a lot of time to solve. I think that would have been a better answer in saying that she hasnt herself been to the border. Which is important. Its important for the people to understand exactly whats happening on the ground and also destructive for the president or Vice President to go to the border because the Security Detail is needed. She could have said that. Look, yes, that answer wasnt a great one. But i think overall this week shes learned just how difficult this is to do and to talk about and the public is learning a little bit more about everything that is entailed in trying to get Immigration Reform accomplished. Yeah, theres a reason that were still talking about this decades after some of those attempts for comprehensive Immigration Reform failed way back under george w. Bush when he was president. Kimberly atkins stohr, thank you for being with us. We appreciate. Earlier on in the show we asked, why are you up . To watch coco goffs match at roland garros. Leon is a rancher, needs to get as many miles before it gets hot by 10 00 a. M. Preparing to release a Baby Bunny back into the wild brought in by one of our cats. Waiting until there are other rabbits in the yard. Wish me luck. Good luck. That is very sweet of you. I personally am up early still thinks about cicadas. Coming up on morning Joe Senator Gary Peters will join the conversation following the release of the bipartisan report on the capitol insurrection. And karen pierce. Dont go anywhere Morning Joe just moments away. Ents away. The calming scent of lavender by downy infusions calm. Laundry isnt done until its done with downy. From Prom Dresses to workouts and new adventures you hope the more you give the less theyll miss. But even if your teen was vaccinated against meningitis in the past they may be missing vaccination for Meningitis B. Although uncommon, Up To 1 in 5 survivors of meningitis will have long term consequences. Now as youre thinking about all the vaccines your teen might need make sure you ask your doctor if your teen is missing Meningitis B vaccination. Ahhh get out of here mouse. Ahhh dont flex your pecs. Terminix. Can you be free of Hair Breakage worries . We invited mahault to see for herself that new Dove Breakage Remedy gives damaged hair the strength it needs. 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So, this is prime Minister Netanyahu of israel who is about to lose office to naftali bennett. And my colleague sent this dispatch from Tel Aviv saying that the parallels are uncanny with President Trump and his supporters. So kasie, listen to this, initially this leader who is on the verge of condemning of losing power refused to condemn the violence of their supporters. Then they condemned violence on all sides. Then they said that there was an effort to silence them. And while their opponent, naftali bennett, who is the likely next Prime Minister of israel, when they went on a conservative while they were going on tv saying not to leave a scorched Earth Government behind over on a conservative tv channel, netanyahu was calling this a person a liar and a fraud. Does, in fact, sound very familiar. And of course, lets just remind everyone that weve been such strong supporters of israel and the u. S. , not least because they are a democracy and of Course Weve been talking about the challenges to our democracy here at home, just underscores the parallels even further. Mike, lets switch gears. Axios is tracking political ads on facebook. Youve noticed some interesting trends here . Yeah, kasie. This is fascinating because so much of what we do is spin or trying to deduce things. This is data. And facebook ads now are very quanti quantifiable. Now you can look at what parties, what candidates, what groups are spending on facebook and see what really is moving the needle. Because at this point, kasie, of course in the cycle theyre not trying to persuade anybody, theyre trying to harness their own supporters, theyre trying to raise money. So Axios Sara Fisher Way ahead of the game in analyzing this data noticed whats going on right now is much more serious policy topics. So were talking foreign policy. Were talking climate. Were talking Voter Rights are now becoming much more dominant topics of conversation on facebook. Just a couple years ago fake news, antifa, far left, those were terms that were being bought much more on facebook and, kasie, a great what to watch of whats coming, a term thats rising on facebook that we see both sides buying more and more of, you would be able to guess, your viewers would be able to guess, big tech. I think thats a huge sign of what the mid Term Cycle Conversation is going to be like. Indeed. Mike allen, thank you very much, as always, for being with us. We really appreciate it. And we have spent the last year frankly focussed on whats going on here at home for good reason. The Coronavirus Pandemic and all of the challenges to our democracy, but lets not forget, President Biden heads overseas today to start doing some of the work with our allies that was so frankly damaged even if you listen to republicans on Capitol Hill during the trump administration. So, a pretty important shift under way here. Thank you all for getting up way toO Early with us on this wednesday morning. Dont go anywhere, Morning Joe starts right now. Lester holt sat down with Vice President Kamala Harris for an exclusive interview. When he was asked why she hasnt visited the border yet, you can tell she didnt quite have an answer prepared. Listen to this. Do you have any plans to visit the border. At some point. You know, we are going to the border. Weve been to the border. So this whole thing about the border, weve been to the border. Weve been to the border. You havent been to the border. And i havent been to